Martin S. Laird

Artist | film-maker | animator

Tag: long exposure

  • Northlight Exhibition, now with added tractors

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    Northlight Exhibition, now with added tractors! There are a few days remaining to see some recent work in the windows of Northlight gallery in Stromness. On show are a selection of paintings and drawings on a variety of themes – all inspired by Orcadian history and culture. Plus photographs of tractors. The work includes an…

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    A passing tractor lit up light a Christmas tree. Long exposure photograph with streaks of blue and red.

  • Loch Lomond in December

    Loch Lomond in December These photos were taken around sunrise on two consecutive mornings on Loch Lomond. Both days were calm and relatively clear, but cold and frosty.

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    A long exposure photograph of the reflection of wooden piers sticking out of the waters of Loch Lomond, by Martin Scott Laird, 2017

  • Dark light at the Broch of Gurness

    These photos were taken at the Broch of Gurness in Evie, in the West Mainland of Orkney. It was a clear starry night and there was faint aurora borealis visible to the North behind Rousay. The photos are long exposures capturing light created by people with torches. The Broch of Gurness is an Iron Age…

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    The Brochj of Gurness in Orkney at night with solarised light trails